Printing apparatus for checks, drafts, &amp;c.



No. 855,707. PATENTED JUNE 4, 1907. G., W. HBENE.

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PATENTED JUNE-4, 1907. G. W. HBENE. PRINTING APPARATUS FOR CHECKS, DBAFTS, &0.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5, 1906.

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NQQSGJDT. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 4. 1907.

I Application filed May 5, 1906. Serial No. 315,284.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LGEO GE W. HEENE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland in the county of Cuyahoga and- State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Printing Apparatus for Checks, Drafts, &c., of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

In protecting bank checks and drafts tofrom alteration, several methods have herefore been employed, for example :-the paper has been scored or roughened with cross lines over amounts written in; the paper has been perforated with numbers corresponding to the amount of the cheek, and there has been stamped on the check, in indelible ink 01' with embossing letters, words, indicating that the check is not good for more than a certain amount, as $10.00, $20.00, $100.00, $1000.00, as the case may be. Each of these methodshave their disadvantages. The first is liable to obscure the amount written in and does not prevent its alteration by one The perforated numbers may also be altered and are sometimes unobserved by the teller paying the check. The third method has the disadvantage that the marks stampodon are for 'ed amounts, and there may be a considerable gap between the amount of the check and the protecting amount. This is particularly true when the check is drawn for a considerable amount, for example :a check drawn for $1580.00 having the protecting mark Not good for more than $2000.00 may be raised four hundred dollars, and still be for less than the protecting mark. My invention provides mechanism for printing the words of the amount in the body of the check,such printing being done in indelible ink, and being so arranged as to. break the paper. This method ovorconu-s the disadvantages of those. above mentioned, and of all the previous methods with which I am'i'amiliar. The exact amount of money is printed in the check in words which cannot be altered without detection. "he printing is clearer and more distinct than when the item is written in by hand, and it must be read by the person paying the check, being in the body of the cheek itself and not an additional amount applied thereto, which may be overlooked.

The present invention comprises theemployment of a series of printing members carrying word type, the members being adapted to be set with relation to each other to produce the amount of thecheck, and there being means for causing such type to aet on the paper.

The drawings clearly illustrate a convenient embodiment of my invention. Figure 1 is a front elevation thereof. Fig. section, for example, on

2 is a vertical cross the hue A-A of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 IS a llOl'lZOIl- BB of F 2. Fig. 4 is a plan of the check carrier. Fig. 5 is an enlarged development of a portion of one of the printing Wheels.

Referring to the machine as shown in the drawings: mounted in a frame 1 is a shaft 2 on which are journaled a series of independent wheels 3, each having secured to its side a gear 4. With each gear 4 meshes a segment 5 loosely pivoted on a shaft 6 and having an operating handle 7. On the ne riphery of the Wheels 3 are adapted to be,printed, as three, hundred, etc., as indicated at 8 in Fig. 2. The levers 7 tl'ierei'o're provide means for rotating the corresponding wheels 3 to bring the type into printing position. These levers operate in. slots in the cover plate 9, such slots being serrated, and the lever having a s u'ing'detent pawl 10 to cotiperate with such serrations and prevent accidental dis lacement.

Below the wheel plate 15, which is guided in grooves in the frame members, and isadapted to carry the check. This plate is provided with suitable marginal stops and clamps, as desired. As shown, there are adjustable spring clips 16 to bear upon the cheek and hold it to the carrier, while at the ends are the marginal stop bars 17 clamped in adjusted position by set screws 151. .The eheck'is so placed on the carrier that the space for the amount in words is directly over the slot it) in th carrier. When the plate is shoved to its most position, this slot is directly b'cm. the lowermost row of type S on the w 3, and is directly above a platen strip 20.

The platen strip 20 may be made of rubber and maybe carried by a cross bar 21, mounted on the forward ends of pivoted arms 22.. The machine is provided with an operating lever 23,-t he movement of which operates a rock shaft 24 on which are cams 25, bearing against the arms 22.

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I) is shown a slidable heels Thus when the lever tal cross section substantially on the line is drawn forward, the rear ends of the arms 22 being depressed, the platen is elevated,

and, acting through the slot 19, forces the shown rollers and 31, made hollow and adapted to be filled with ink, and these bear against intermediate rollers 32 and 33 which are adapted to bear against the ty e 8.

It results from the above descri ed mechanism that if the levers 7 are set to the amounts desired and the checkplaced on the carrier 15, and the latter'shoved into place, and the lever 23 drawn forward, the desired amount is printed in words in the body of the check, both by indelible ink and by breaking the pa er,thus rendering the check at once a solutely clear as to the amount intended and preventing any alteration thereof.

On the cover plate 9 are printed words corresponding to the type on the wheels, so that the levers 7 may be readily placed to bring the wheels into the position desired. In order to further insure the wheels being in the position intended, I form the printing type 8 on half of the periphery of the wheels and on the other half I place corresponding words, with their letters in the natural direction, so that they may be easily read. Each word of the reading type is substantially diametrically opposite the corresponding word of the printing type,thus, in the machine shown, as the lowermost type does the printing, the topmost one of the reading, type will indicate the amount to be printed by that wheel. To allow these reading type to be conveniently inspected, I provide an opening '36, through the frame, in which may be placed a suitable piece of glass. By this means, after the levers are set, an inspection will be made through the window 36 to see that the wheels are properly placed before the check is printed.

The rinting type are formed to impress or brea r the paper as explained. This may be accomplished by grooving the face of the t pe, as illustrated by Fig. 5. Opposite the sliort words of type are suitable filling marks, as indicated by 38 in Fig. 5, so that there will be no room to add intermediate words in the cheek. At that portion of the periphery of each wheel which is over the platen 20 in the idle osition of the wheels, I form a continuous lling mark indicated by 39 in Fig. 5, so that substantially all the space Where there are no words in the printed check will be filled by these filling marks,-preventing additions thereto.

As alterations in the cents columns would be comparativel unimportant, I form the two wheels WlllCh print the cents owner with numbers instead of words. These numbers may be underlined to more surely indicate that they apply to cents only.

The check is placed in the machine with the margin sto s so adjusted that the second cents whee is directly adjacent to the word Dollars on the check. Fig. 4 shows the check where the amount printed is nine thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars and ten cents. The first lever is therefore set at the word Nine,-the second at the word Thousand, the third at the word Eight,the fourth at the word llundred,the fifth at the word A nr.l,the sixth at the word Twenty,the seventh at the word And, and the cents levers at 1 and 0, respectively. If the amount were nine thousand eight hundred dollars and ten cents,-thc sixth and seventh levers would be left in their normal position, where fore filling marks would appear in place of the word Twenty and the word And following it in Fig. 4.

If the check were for one dollar, any of the first five levers, in the embodiment shown, could be set at One, the sixth lever would be set at And and the other levers, being untouched, would cause their wheels to print filling marks in all the rows of the space down. to the cents columns.

It is tobe understood, of course, that the number of levers and Wheels shown, is simply illustrative. My invention is especially well adapted for use in banks in filling in. drafts, and in such cases it might be desirable to add several levers and wheels.

I have called the paper printed herein a check,-which, of course, is used as ineluding drafts and other paper desired.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. The combination of a series of wheels having on their periphery word type, means for positioning each wheel independently, a movable carrier for the check having an opening through it, an adjus able marginal stop a platen adapted to act against the check through such opening and force it into ongagement with the wheels.

2. In a printing apparatus for checks, drafts, etc., the combination. of a series of in dependentwheels, means for positioning the same, an inking roller for type on the wheels, a check carrier slidably mounted below the wheels and having an opening through it, a platen adapted to cooperate with the type through such opening, a pivoted lever carrying the platen, a cam adapted to act on. said lever, and an operating lever adapted to rock said cam.

3. In a printing apparatus for checks, drafts, etc. the combination of a series of in.- dependent Wheels mounted side by side and each provided on one side of its periphery with a series of reading characters and on the other side of its periphery with a series of IIO word printing characters, said Word printing characters projecting farther than the reading characters, a pair of inking rollers in the path of the printing characters and out of I the path of the reading characters, means for rotating sail Wheels, and means for printing thereby.

e. The combination in a printing apparatus,- a series of independent Wheels having type on their faces, means for positioning the same to form a platen located opposite such line, a check carrier slidable between the platen and line of type, an impression l Wheels in a plane substantially tengential to the, Wheels and having a slot through it, a spring clip mounted on the carrier for holding s check thereon, an adjustable marginal stop on the carrier, and means for forcing the platen through said slot to press the check against the type.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto afix my signature in the presence of ttvo Witnesses.

' GEORGE WV. HEENE.

Witnesses: ALBERT H. BATES,

.J. B. HULL. 

